back to painting...

Whilst I have spent a lot of time on the pinhole camera over the last 2 weeks or so I have also tried to keep my hand in on painting....as this is what I am supposed to be doing. Therefore over the last couple of weeks I have continued to explore large format mark making. Experimental sessions led by Sylvia and Phillipa led to trying out scraping of paint from a coated surface while the admired work of John Virtue has led to 2 attempts at building definitions inspired by the different vanatage point of the pinhole work.

St Johns Cathedral ~ 1.7 metres x 1m

A childs eye view of a dark foreboding church against a dark ominous sky. Overtones of fear inferred by teh sharp railings pointing up to the same vanishing point as the steeple. One railing drawn out of alignment wrt the others to suggest something is wrong ......Would love to tackle some serious issues of the day such as clerical child abuse and need to keep this in mind as my insight develops over teh coming weeks,months,years.

A later attempt at mark making using teh same subject is as follows...20 mins work pushing paint around a pva treated paper surface before it dries in and becomes unworkable.

Only partially successful and need to learn how to do cloudy skies more realistically.

Further attempt with old man image turned out a little better....

Particularly happy with definition of lips,hair and general sombre tone. This aligns well with my pretty painting of the disused Georgian building...fronted by scaffolding. The commonality of both objects ignored and left alone, untended...waiting to die. Will try and place these together in the corner of exhibit to show linkage.

Like the OLD MAN - forgotten , ignored, waiting to die!